cachet
noun /ˈkæʃeɪ/
/kæˈʃeɪ/
[uncountable, singular] (formal)- if something has cachet, it has a special quality that people admire and approve of
威信；声望 - No other brand name has quite the same cachet.
没有其他品牌有完全相同的声望。 - the cachet of the elegant Right Bank hotel
优雅的右岸酒店的标志
- Supporting the arts confers social cachet.
支持艺术会带来社会声望。 - The university didn't have the cachet of or Cambridge, but it had a strong research base.
这所大学没有牛津或剑桥的声望，但它有强大的研究基础。
词源early 17th cent.: from French, from cacher in the sense ‘to press’, based on Latin coactare ‘constrain’. - No other brand name has quite the same cachet.